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The Rappahannock Rapidan Elder Care Coalition, a partnership of local health, human service, and consumer organizations, has been selected from a field of 486 applicants nationwide to receive a $150,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPOA) program.
Over the next 18 months, the coalition will work to develop plans for improving long term care and supportive services systems that would respond to the current and future rieeds of at-risk older adults in Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison and Orange counties.
As one of the eleven communities selected as a Community Partnerships grantee, the Elder Care Coalition will also have the opportunity at the end of the 18 months to compete for a fouryear, $750,000 implementation grant to actually create the activities described in their plans and pursue additional resources to sustain them.
“This is a very exciting opportunity for our communities,” said project director Sallie Morgan, spokesperson for the Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services Board and Area Agency on Aging, the lead agency for the coalition.
“The Community Partnerships grant will give us the resources to take a serious look at the growth of the elder popu
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